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  • Outlook Best Practices: Maintaining the system

    In this final video installment, Harry has really learned some effective time and schedule management, and he knows that all that depends on consistently applying the principles he's learned — fundamentals that can happen naturally after they become part of a normal routine. But Renée has...
  • Outlook Best Practices: Scheduling

    Although you don't have much say about when and how many meetings are scheduled, you do have more control over your calendar than you might think. In this video, Renée talks to Harry about some of the things he can do to take more control over his calendar such as 1) Setting aside time each morning...
  • Outlook Best Practices: The Four Ds

    Learning to manage your email and time effectively is not only a function of Outlook features. Control of your schedule comes from understanding and following best practices in how you work. Renée explains the principles behind the practice of the "four Ds" in handling email: Delete it. Do it...
  • 5 minutes before start Snooze!

    If you are a fan of the Snooze button for Outlook reminders, you might have noticed a subtle change in how the feature works in Outlook 2010. In Outlook 2010, your last selected snooze time is remembered so that it is automatically selected the next time you click Snooze . We made this change in response...
  • Meeting Requests with a Preview of your Calendar

    Earlier we’ve shown how Conversations and Quick Steps are designed to help you get through your email faster than ever before. Now, we’d like to show you another feature that will save you time whenever you receive a meeting request! Handling meeting requests usually involves two important steps – reading...
  • Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

    One of the more popular features for Outlook’s calendar is the capability to add your country or region’s holidays into your calendar. This way, you’ll never miss the next holiday. Adding holiday items to your calendar is pretty easy: From the Tools menu, click Options, then click Calendar...
  • The Daily Task List

    A few months ago we blogged about the new To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 , and today I'm going to expand on that by talking about the new Daily Task List , and how you can use it together with the To-Do Bar as a pretty cool little task-and-time-management system. Every good feature starts with a real-world...
  • Outlook 2007 Gadgets for Windows Sidebar

    If you’re a fan of the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar, but wish your upcoming appointments and tasks could be shown even when Outlook was minimized, I’ve got great news for you, you can do this today with the Outlook Sidebar Gadgets. One of the new features introduced in Windows Vista is the Windows Sidebar...
  • Fun with Outlook Date Fields

    Here’s a cool trick for Outlook: you can type in date fields! Suppose I want to set up a meeting for next Friday. In the meeting inspector, instead of clicking on the calendar picker to navigate to the right day, I can simply type “next Fri” into the date field, then press Tab or...